Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 09:13:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Greg Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu> To: Martijn Koster <mak@webcrawler.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Redirecting "make world" Output Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970910091018.32439B-100000@wilde.oit.umass.edu> In-Reply-To: <19970910125826.58030@webcrawler.com>
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On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Martijn Koster wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 1997 at 07:37:46AM -0400, Greg Pavelcak wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I believe the upgrade tutorial says you can save the info output of > > make world by redirecting like this (using sh as shell): > > > > make world 2>&1 | tee /var/tmp/mw.out > > > > I saw this 2>&1 construction in the sh man pages but I don't > > understand it. > > it just means fold stderr and stdout into a single stream. > > > Anyway, the immediate problem is that I get an error > > when I write this. I think it said "ambiguous redirection" > > unfortunately I don't have it with me now. > > Are you absolutely sure you where using sh? That sounds distinctly > like a csh error. > > -- Martijn Koster, m.koster@pobox.com > You're probably right. My default shell is csh. When I do "shutdown now" it says something like "enter shell or press return for sh" but here I guess "sh" means whatever shell you happened to be in when you did "shutdown now"? I'll have to try the csh construct for redirecting and see what happens. Thanks. Greg
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